Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 1, 2018

Managers of sales and marketing teams are charged with coaching up individual team members, enhancing their skill sets and improving overall team performance. Get them proficient with more marketing technologies? Storytelling has stood the test of time as a critical skill in sales and marketing?—?and But where to begin?

Marketing 226

Marketing Telemarketing Scale Education 226

Pointclear

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

As an editor and marketer, I spend a lot of time thinking about the “how to”—in other words, how to translate the best and more interesting marketing ideas into truly actionable steps for organizations looking to grow their business. In other words: B2B marketers + social = lots of room for improvement.

Trends 180

Trends B2B Social Media Marketing 180

Cincom Smart Selling

JANUARY 27, 2015

Smart companies don’t have software initiatives; they have business initiatives that drive software purchases. It also has a marketing module to help dealer offices. The front office is a business process; it’s how you market, sell and service your customers. How smart are you? Source: Smart Selling.

Scale 48

Scale Smart Company CRM Microsoft 48

Braveheart Sales

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

We’re very unlikely to see wage deflation in the US market. Of course, smart companies play the arbitrage game: When costs are rising, pass along the price increases as quickly as you can while you try to delay accepting the cost increases from your suppliers as long as possible. Once wage inflation happens, it sticks.

Margin 40

Margin Insurance Insurance Energy 40

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Marketers have been much quicker to jump on the tech-adoption bandwagon. For instance, marketing language software — powered by machine learning — helped JPMorgan Chase increase headline clicks by as much as 450%. Sales and marketing have always had different ways of approaching the same problems.

Ideal Customer Profile 83

Ideal Customer Profile How To Churn Face-to-face 83

Hubspot Sales

MAY 10, 2018

If you're in a company where they won't promote you, it is probably because of you -- you are not doing something required of you that will result in a promotion. Smart companies always want to keep good people. If they aren't promoting you, then the next company won't promote you either. Why is this bad advice?

Hiring 103

Hiring Hubspot Inbound Promotion 103

Factor 8

AUGUST 8, 2019

Also called the business development rep, lead generation, sales development rep, appointment setter, marketing development rep, entry-level selling, cold caller, data cleanser, and sadly, the empty seat. Some AE positions will generate their own leads to supplement the BDR / Marketing Leads.

Inside Sales 31

Inside Sales Hiring Lead Rank Top of Funnel 31